5 Tips for Affordable Pocket Wedding Invitations
When you’re planning a wedding and need to keep it budget-friendly, you look for ways to save wherever you can. Today we’ll dive into cutting costs on pocket-style invites, which tend to be pricier…
How to Word Your Invitations For an Adults Only Wedding
For the brides that are wondering how to put adults only without actually saying it, this is how I made my rsvp cards. It’s so hard to figure out politely how to do it, but with our wedding, we have…
Save Money: Watch Those Wedding Invitations!
Wedding season is the time of year that the Post Office sees literally hundreds of thousands of save-the-dates, wedding invitations and RSVP cards. Unfortunately, not all of the invitations and their…
The Best Online Wedding Invitation Round-Up
When you’re ready to send a wedding invitation, you have about a million choices. Expensive, inexpensive, simple, ornate, rustic, elegant…you name it. It’s out there. When it comes to saving time,…
3 Ways to Embrace Digital Wedding Invitations
If you’re a stationary nerd, stop reading now. For a person who loves the feel of touching pen to paper, going with digital wedding invitations might seem almost sacrilegious! Then again, have you…
Don't Make These 3 Wedding Mistakes That Cost Me $$$
Alright, okay, I admit it. I goofed up. Multiple times when planning my wedding, actually. I made a few rookie wedding mistakes in some little-known areas that didn’t seem too important in the grand…
Honeymoons and After the Wedding
4 Awesome Thank You Note Templates
Sometimes it’s hard to come up with the right words to say “Thank You”. While you might want to personalize each note, that can literally be super-hard on a busy bride. At Wedding for $1000 we love…
What To Say When People RSVP 'No' for Stupid Reasons
We all have that one friend… Photo credit While you might see this as absolutely inconsiderate, it’s not all that uncommon these days. The horrible thing is: it will be the one person you think is…
Menus, Invitations, and Other Stationery: Professional Printing or DIY?
Aside from the beautiful dresses, gorgeous ring, and family bonding, weddings usually have one more thing in common that many tend to overlook as a priority. I’m talking about wedding invitations,…
Vintage Wedding Stationery Ideas
Wedding invitations are the first thing your guests are going to see, so you want them to feel special when they open their invite. From bespoke invitations to stationery with a little 20’s vibe, and…
Make DIY Invitations With the Epson Expression XP-830
I’ve done some DIY projects in my day, usually involving glitter, paint and sometimes even glitter paint. This was my very first attempt at making invitations and actually printing them. I recently…
Wow With Your Wedding Invitation Wording!
Your wedding should be absolutely perfect and reflect who you are as a couple – yes, that includes everything down to the wording on your wedding invitations. When it comes to choosing your wedding…
Hey, You're Not Invited – What To Say When You're Having a Small Wedding
The best way to bring down your wedding spending is by having fewer guests. How do you tell people they’re not invited, though? Here’s where wedding etiquette definitely comes into play. Do not be an…
Budget Wedding Planning – Save On Stationery
by Brittany McComas Want to know what you’re doing wrong when it comes to wedding planning? Not doing the right things to save on stationery, among many other things which we will eventually manage…
Our Favorite Handmade Invitations Are By 4LovePolkaDots
Inviting guests to your wedding is almost as important as the ceremony itself. Sending handmade invitations is a special way to say, “I’m getting married, and you have to be there!” No matter what…
What Needs To Go On Your Wedding Website
Be sure to inform your guests in the coolest way possible what to expect on your big day. Instead of being Little Miss Bossy Pants, get yourself a sweet website together with chill banter and witty…
You Got This! DIY Wedding Invitations
Every girl dreams of the special day they get to sign, seal and deliver the sweetest invite in the world–their wedding invitation. You can cut costs on your wedding expenses with “Do It Yourself”…
The Four Best Ways To Cut Wedding Costs
From makeup to champagne receptions, food and invitations, there are several ways you can cut wedding costs to make your day even more special than you had ever imagined. Most people think cutting…
Wedding Programs – A Personal Story By The Asshole Bride
The Asshole Bride says what etiquette prevents YOU from saying. Maybe you don’t have the exact same issues as she does, but you can probably still identify with her stories. Watch out – in case the…
Free Wedding Stationery Template For Our Readers!
We are so excited about this! Today we bring you something gorgeous and something free from a wonderful designer of wedding stationery and invitations: oaksandcedars. For brides and grooms on a…
Wedding Planning: 10 Things People Always Forget To Budget For
Wedding planning on a budget is already hard enough without the extra costs that you don’t even know about. Many weddings end up at least a little over budget because they forget these ten things.…
Spend or Skip? Wedding Details You Can Do Without
You’re a bride on a budget, and that budget isn’t big. Your dollars need to be carefully spent on just the wedding details that are the most meaningful to you at your wedding, and not on things that…
Wedding Pro Tip: Which RSVP Card Belongs To Whom?
There have been many pins on Pinterest encouraging brides to pick up the slack their guests tend to leave when returning an RSVP card (when they return them, that is). It is definitely a difficult…
A Guide to Budget Wedding Stationary: Programs and Place Cards and Napkins Oh My!
So we’ve sent out our Save the Dates, we’ve decided on an invitation set; now what? If you’re a bride with simple desires like me, you may not have thought about the need for a wedding program or an…
One Quick Idea To Save Time Writing Thank You Cards
Sometimes, Time IS Money, or so the saying goes. And when it comes to having an overwhelming amount of wedding invitation envelopes to address, time can seem to stretch on forever. While you’ve got a…
A Guide to Budget Stationary: Save the Dates and Invitations
Article by Lillian Crouse When I first started on road to planning a budget wedding, I was shocked by what I didn’t know about wedding stationary. Once I figured out how little I knew and how much it…
A Candid Look at the Guest List
Article by Lillian Crouse “Close family and friends only.” It starts out so simply, with those five innocent little words. Expectations of 50, maybe 100 people (you do have a big family after all).…
Cheap Wedding Invitations That Don't Look Cheap
Wedding invitations. It shouldn’t be that difficult to get people to show up at your wedding. A) Send a card telling them the date. B) They say ‘yay’ or ‘nay’. C) When the time comes, people show up…